Power and Impotence, a drama in 3 acts
Realizador anna recalde miranda
Países Paraguay
Duração 105 min
Sinopse
Fernando Lugo, « the bishop of the poor », former Catholic Bishop and member of the Liberation Theology, won the 2008 presidential elections in Paraguay. , After 61 years of hegemony by the Colorado Party, created by the dictator Alfredo Stroessner who ruled Paraguay for 35 years, this unexpected victory came as a political miracle, the people's dream for change finally come true. , But politics is not for saints and the dream turns into a nightmare., In a political thriller settled in stranger-than-fiction Paraguay, we follow their hopes and disappointments from a rare behind-the-scene point of view, until the tragic ending and their fall from power., A unique period in the history is documented in an intimate, universal film, providing an insight on the sense and the limits of politics, on the paradoxes of democratic systems nowadays., A shakespearien contemporary drama about power.
Fernando Lugo, « the bishop of the poor », former Catholic Bishop and member of the Liberation Theology, won the 2008 presidential elections in Paraguay. , After 61 years of hegemony by the Colorado Party, created by the dictator Alfredo Stroessner who ruled Paraguay for 35 years, this unexpected victory came as a political miracle, the people's dream for change finally come true. , But politics is not for saints and the dream turns into a nightmare., In a political thriller settled in stranger-than-fiction Paraguay, we follow their hopes and disappointments from a rare behind-the-scene point of view, until the tragic ending and their fall from power., A unique period in the history is documented in an intimate, universal film, providing an insight on the sense and the limits of politics, on the paradoxes of democratic systems nowadays., A shakespearien contemporary drama about power.